“After some difficulties – as you remember – the question of Orlen logistics is more or less solved. Orlen is going to further invest in infrastructure,” he told reporters after a meeting with Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius in Vilnius on Monday.
He added that he had learnt during the meetings with Ireneusz Fafara, Orlen Lietuva CEO, that the company was currently looking for ways to improve logistics.
Orlen Lietuva confirmed officially last fall that it was mulling a possibility to build a refined products pipeline between Mažeikiai-based refinery and the port of Klaipėda. It then said that the goal of the refined products pipeline would be to streamline the company’s logistics costs.
“They are talking just now with the minister of energy, the minister of economy, the minister of environment, and they are looking for a good solution. But as far as I know, they have money for this project,” Skolimowski said without specifying the project.
Orlen Lietuva estimates that investments in the refined products pipeline project would reach some 110 million US dollars (LTL 295.5m, EUR 85.65m). The source of funding has not been confirmed yet.
Orlen Lietuva has also put forward a question on modification of terms for the transportation of cargo to Klaipėda as it wants lower rates. In April, PKN Orlen promised to Lithuania to consider once again its position on logistics problems so as to lower the cargo transportation rates on Lithuania’s territory, in particular from Mažeikiai to the port of Klaipėda and to rebuild dismantled rail tracks between Bugėniai, Lithuania, and Renge, Latvia.
Top level executives of Lithuania‘s railway company Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways) and PKN Orlen met in Warsaw to discuss those issues in April.
